Extracurriculars and Awards
Leadership Involvement
-Junior Advisor (JA), Honors Housing Community (HHC), 2015-2016
-President, Honors Student Council, 2015-2016
-Chair, Student Affairs Fee Advisory Board, 2016
- Networking and Professionalism Chair, Christian Healthcare Leaders
-Outreach Coordinator, Texas Aggies Fighting Alzheimer's
The above organizations that I currently hold a leadership role in (2015-2016) are designed to help me enrich my personal development, leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and academic excellence. These leadership roles allow me to interact with students and faculty with greater frequency and complexity, allowing me to build interpersonal relationships and refine my communication skills.
As one of the 3 Junior Advisors of the Honors Housing Community, I work to develop the new 43-member Sophomore Advisor team into the best student mentors they can be for their incoming freshmen families. In addition to developing these peer mentors, I also work closely with the Honors Housing Community program coordinator (an Honors and Undergraduate Research staff member) on the development of the learning seminar honors freshmen receive as part of their participation in the first-year community. As a Junior Advisor, I also work closely with my team to develop large events to promote a spirit of community and scholarship within the honors dorms, such as a large dorm formal dance. Last year I served as a Sophomore Advisor in this organization. In this role I assisted University Honors freshmen in their transition to Texas A&M by leading a weekly seminar focusing on a variety of topics that get students thinking about ways to succeed and thrive as a student at Texas A&M. Additionally, as a Sophomore Advisor I served as a mentor, confidant, and friend to the incoming freshmen in the Honors Housing Community. By living amongst the freshmen in the freshmen-only dorms of the HHC, I was able to directly interact with freshmen in the program, including those outside of my own "family."
My leadership in the Honors Student Council (HSC) has recently resulted in me being elected President of the organization. As President, I will serve as the voice of Honors students to faculty around the university, including through my seat the Honors and Undergraduate Research Action Committee (HURAC) which decides the shape of the Honors program at Texas A&M. Additionally, I will lead all HSC efforts for planning events to promote continued Honors Student unity beyond freshmen year, as well as the promotion of high impact opportunities for honors students. My executive committee and I have also decided to create a new partnership in the coming year with the Bryan and College Station school systems in which our members will tutor local students and help facilitate events, like science fairs. Last year in HSC I served as the Vice-president of Research and Academics. This position allowed me to build strong relationships with members of Texas A&M's faculty and student leaders in research, including many faculty members and students outside of my department. My primary responsibility in this position was leading Donuts and Discussion, an event where a student researcher comes and talks to a group of Honors students about his or her field of study in an interdisciplinary manner. After the presentation, students and the presenter discuss the subject while eating donuts, allowing students to form valuable relationships with professors. In the fall of 2014 I also was responsible for creating a 5-person panel called "Women in STEM." This panel boasted some of the top female faculty (including several department heads) from around Texas A&M's STEM departments who came to our large event to discuss the discrimination and biases that they faced to make it as far in STEM as they have today as a woman.
In the Spring of 2016, after one year of services on the Board, I was selected to serve as the Chair of the 9-person Student Affairs Fee Advisory Board (SAFAB). The SAFAB meets once a week to discuss our budget allocation suggestion for the $17 million University Advancement Fee (UAF), a student fee that affects dozens of important institutions at Texas A&M that help the well-being of students. Beginning in the Fall of 2016, the board will move into deliberations regarding the upcoming fiscal year. Each board member is assigned a minimum of two organizations to represent during deliberations, and my first year I received the Student Counseling Services (SCS) and the Student Government Association (SGA). This year, I will serve as the liaison to SCS again, as well as the liaison to the Graduate and Professional Students Council (GPSC).
In 2016, I am a founding member and a leader of Christian Healthcare Leaders (CHL) and Texas Aggies Fighting Alzheimer's (TAFA). I will add more information about our organizational goals over the summer.
Other Organizations
-Camp Counselor, Fish Camp (Session B, Camp Sullins), 2014-2015
As a Fish Camp Counselor, I have the ability to grow further as a mentor and role-model to the incoming freshmen of Texas A&M, as well as to develop a tight-knit support system amongst the counselors and chairs of the camp to support each other and our freshmen. My camp is Camp Sullins (Session B Aqua). As an entire camp and individually with my Discussion Group (DG) partner, the objective of Fish Camp is to ensure that the incoming freshmen of Texas A&M are comfortable, feel like they have a sense of belonging, become educated in Texas A&M's many traditions, and are assured that Texas A&M is the greatest university in the world. |